10. Since I don't want to book reservations again I can't screencap anything past this point (if anyone wants to send me screenshots I'd be happy to add them). The next screen is asking you to confirm all your details. Once you confirm, you'll have to go to a Lawson convenience store and use their ticket machine to print out your ticket(s). Remember, if you made a reservation exactly like in this walkthrough, you will get ONE ticket that works for FOUR people. Reserving online like this, will also get you a free drink at the cafe!

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Hadaka Matsuri (裸祭り) is a Japanese festival held at many different
locations throughout Japan.
The standard explanation for this festival is that thousands of somewhat
intoxicated, nearly naked men gather in one location to search through the
crowd for something that will bring them luck for the whole year. Because the
individual festivals are all different, we can’t go deeper into an explanation
without singling out one in particular. This video will explain the Hadaka
Matsuri that takes place at Konomiya Shrine (国府宮).

Konomiya Shrine is the largest shrine in the city of Inazawa (稲沢), which is located about 12 minutes by train from Nagoya (which is about 250km, or 160miles southwest of Tokyo). Inazawa has a
population of about 130,000 and falls about halfway between rural and urban,
which has made it a popular place for the construction of new homes. Other notable places in Inazawa include the Mitsubishi
Solae elevator testing tower, which previously held the record for the world's tallest elevator testing tower, and Inazawa Grand Bowl, which previously held the record for largest bowling alley (116 lanes).

People from all over the Owari region participate in the Hadaka Matsuri, signing up at the designated location in their cities to become hadaka otoko (naked men / 裸男). Several days before the festival, each group of hadaka otoko must meet a
quota for producing mochi (餅), or rice cake. Most shrines bring their completed
stack of mochi to Konomiya before the festival, although some will parade it
through Konomiya’s gates the morning of the festival. This mochi will be displayed at the
festival, and sold afterwards.

The men of Hadaka Matsuri also start out at these smaller
shrines. The morning of the festival they finish preparations on their shrine’s
naoizasa, which is a long pole made
of bamboo. Tied to the naoizasa are naoinuno. Naoinuno are pieces of cloth on which you write your name, age, and
wish for the year. Wishes are usually modest and related to issues such as
health or bad luck. Anyone can write a naoinuno, although it costs money to attach it to a naoizasa.

Naoinuno

Naoizasa come in many shapes and sizes

A fair amount of work goes into the planning for each
group. Hadaka otoko must register their intent to participate at their nearest
sign up location There are no age requirements, so even small children, and on the rare
occasion an infant, may be seen participating at the festival. Groups must
submit a police report asking for permission to march through the streets from
their shrine to Konomiya the day of the festival. On this march the hadaka
otoko will carry their shrine’s naoizasa
to deliver it to Konomiya. This act is called hounou. The Hadaka otoko of each group wear matching headbands,
called hachimaki. Aside from their hachimaki, hadaka otoko will
typically wear only a fundoshi, which
is a holy undergarment.

Hadaka otoko wearing fundoshi and hachimaki

Hadaka Matsuri itself is an all-day festival. Game and food
stalls line the pathway of gates at Konomiya. In the morning smaller groups begin their hounou, by taking turns
marching through the gates of Konomiya with their naoizasa. At one point, some groups may attempt to stand their naoizasa on its end, and the occasional hadaka otoko may even try to climb it. There’s no real reason for why this is
done, though some people feel very strongly that not only is it dangerous, but
it's disrespectful to the people who tied their naoinuno to the naoizasa.

One group standing their naoizasa on end

Once each shrine has completed its hounou, the main event can begin. The Konomiya Hadaka Matsuri
revolves around a man called the shin otoko (神男),
literally man of god. Unlike the hadaka otoko, the shin otoko is completely naked and shaved of all body hair except for his eyebrows. For
three days before Hadaka Matsuri, he can only eat rice, takuwan, and drink hot water to purify himself, a cleansing process called okomori.
Candidates who wish to become shin otoko submit applications, which are
reviewed by priests of Konomiya Shrine and prior shin otoko. They must be
young, in good physical condition, and unofficially able offer a gift of money
to prior shin otoko, in return for their protection at the festival. Four final
applicants are selected, who then participate in a lottery called omikuji,
where they select twisted strands of paper to determine the year’s shin otoko.

On the day of the event, the shin otoko will attempt to
cross through the gates of Konomiya and make it to the entrance of the
shrine, called the naoiden. He is
said to absorb all the ills and bad luck from the hadaka otoko who touch him. Therefore, for the main event all hadaka otoko will be trying to find and touch
him. Many hadaka otoko drink sake liberally before participating in the event.
This, combined with the cold temperature and crowding means that the Hadaka
Matsuri can sometimes be quite dangerous. Each year a number of people sustain
injuries, and throughout the history of Hadaka Matsuri people have even died.
The shin otoko, at the center of all the pushing and shoving, will generally be
bruised and battered by the end of the event.

Men at the naoiden attempting to pull in the shin otoko

However, there are Hadaka otoko designated to protect the
shin otoko. He has three guards, all whom are prior shin otoko. Additionally,
a smaller shrine will be designated to protect the shin otoko. There are only
two shrines that may have this honor: Shoumeiji and Koike. . These Hadaka otoko are called
teoketai, and have the duty of throwing
water into the crowd, which serves several purposes. First, it cools down and
lubricates the hadaka otoko to prevent injuries. Second, the water is thrown
from the direction of the naoiden toward the hadaka otoko surrounding the shin
otoko, with the intention of stalling them momentarily so that the shin otoko
can advance toward the shrine. Teoketai
run continuous circuits from the shrine well to pick up the water, to the shin
otoko.

Banners for Koike and Shoumeiji

The teoke buckets used by the teoketai

The day climaxes when the exhausted shin otoko reaches the
naoiden. It does not end, though. At midnight the shin otoko has another duty:
he must carry something called dobei mochi, plus a doll, in circles around the
chouya, which is a shrine building. The dobei mochi is made of year-old burned ashes of tsubute mixed with
mud. Tsubute is made from branches of willow and peach, which are wrapped in
paper. While the shin otoko is circling the chouya, tsubute will be thrown at
him, which is also said to transfer bad luck from the thrower to the dobei
mochi and doll that the shin otoko carries. This tsubute will be picked up by
members of the shrine and burned, which will then be used to make the dobei
mochi for the shin otoko of the following year.

Only after this is completed can the shin otoko rest.

The source of this ritual is actually pretty dark. It’s a
reenactment of an old ritual where one unlucky man passing near a shrine would
be forcefully captured to play the role of naoinin, or shin otoko. The people of
the village would transfer their bad luck to him and then cast him out. Because
it was inhumane the practice was banned, but later emerged in the form of this
festival. Today the shin otoko is a revered role, and applicants for the
position are strictly selected by Konomiya shrine priests and prior shin otoko.

♀？・10, 20, and 40 look normal. Judging from their pictures they look healthy. 20 looks fatter than 40. I guess I like 60. The one farthest to the right is fat. By the way, 10 looks good but 40 looks like she has abs.

♀・I’m like one of those women from fighting games so I have to say they’re all thin to me.

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60だ…

目標は0～40。

♀・I’m 60. My goal is 0-40.

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-20からいけるけど100が最高なんだが

♂・I can go as low as -20 but 100 is the absolute best.

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これで言うなら自分は60だと思いたいけど実際100だから困る

♀？・I want to say I’m 60 but really I’m 100… sigh

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40以下はもガリガリレベルだろ

魅力を感じねぇ。0パーセントとかマジありえね。どこの貧困層ですか？

と思っちまうんだが。

60で0って感じだな。80がベスト100でやっとぽっちゃりってレベルだろ。

♂・Under 40 are skin and bones. They’re not attractive at all. I can’t even believe 0. Seeing them makes me think they’re living in abject poverty or something. To me 60 is 0 percent chubby. 80 is the best, and 100 is finally kind of chubby.

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40%ぐらいが標準だろ

♂？・40 is normal.

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全部だいじょーぶです

♂？All of them are fine!

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ポチャどこー？

俺はポチャ好きではなくデブ専だったようだ・・・

♂・Where are the chubby women?

I thought I liked chubby women but I guess I really like fat women, then.

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10から80まで一気にイキたいです！！

♂？・I’d like someone from 10 to 80 please!!

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60ぐらいが健康的でいいな

♂・About 60 looks healthy and nice.

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－30、－20はちょっとエロい気分になれないわ…お肉食べてねｗ

♂・-30 and -20 can’t be sexy to me… please eat some meat lol

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200％位かな…得意先の社長にまでなんか太ったね て言われて消えてしまいたいけど生きてる！プリンタルトおいしー！キャプチュー！

♀・Well, 200% maybe? The president of a company I work with told me that I’m getting fat so now I just want to die. But I am still alive! Pudding tarts are so delicious! Yum yum yum!

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－30と－20は同性の私から見ても怖くて嫌…

60前後は素敵だと思うし、羨ましい！

♀・-30 and -20 look scary to me even though I’m a woman. Around 60 look great and I’m jealous!

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１００でも全然許せる件。まあ顔によるが。

♂・100 is totally fine. It depends on the face, though.

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40が理想

0以下は正直キモい

♂・40 is ideal. Under 0 is disgusting.

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６０くらいが好きすぎる

♂？・I love 60 so much.

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100％でも大したことないのは「ぽっちゃりで済ませられるのはここまで これ以上はデブとみなす」というメッセージです

♂？・So what you’re saying here is that 100 is the boundary line between chubby and fat and everyone over that is fat.

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美味そうだなと思えるのは最低でも40から上。40から下はむしろ逆に心配になる。

何度でも言おう、女性のふくよかさは安心感の現れなんだよ!!

♂・40 is the lowest I’d consider attractive. Under that I’d just worry.

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-30から40まで

♂？・I'm good for -30 to 40

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10が理想だが、40～100まででもいけるな

♂？・10 is ideal, but 40-100 is also okay

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-30～10は造形美の極みだな。

40以上はデブだろ。。。

♂？・-30-10 look like they were carved to perfection. More than 40 is fat...

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０、１０、４０は偽乳だな。

♂？・0, 10, and 40 have fake boobs.

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昔聞いた名言があるんだ

ぽちゃとデブのボーダーは顔がかわいいか否か。

♂？I heard this famous quote a long time ago: “A cute face decides whether someone is chubby or fat.”

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男なのに-30％くらい…

♂・Even though I’m a guy I’m -30...

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20~100ならどれでもおっけ～

♂？・I’d like anyone from 20-100

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女の私としては20が理想的だけど… 今、60ないぐらい ダイエットやめようかな…

♀・As a woman 20 is ideal, but now I’m about 60 or more. Maybe I should stop my diet?

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-30のどこがガリガリなんだよ？

スリム～スレンダーのレベルだろ。

まだまだ余裕で健康的な生活を送れる領域。

筋肉質だと尚良し。

アフリカの難民レベルじゃないとガリガリとは言わない。

♂・-30 is skin and bones? They look slim and slender. They can still easily live a healthy life. If they had a little more muscle it’d be even better. It’s not like they’re on the level of African refugees...

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全部好きです

♂？・I like them all.

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60が0%じゃね？

♂？・Isn’t 60 supposed to be 0?

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偽乳特戦隊

♂？・A lot of these women have fake boobs.

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つまり100％を超えるとデブって事か

♂？・So what you’re saying is more than 100% is fat?

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0以下は無理無理

骨が見えるのと胸がないのは論外

♂？・Under 0 is absolutely impossible. You can see their bones and they don’t have boobs so they’re out of the question.

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女だけどこの人たち皆バランスよくて羨ましい。

20の胸-20のあばら80の下腹0の腰骨10の太ももな私はぽちゃ度いくつだ。

♀？・I’m a woman and I’m jealous of these girls because they’re all well-balanced. My chest is 20, my ribs are -20, my stomach is 80, my waist is 0, and my thighs are 10. So how chubby am I?

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６０が普通だろ。

８０あたりからポッチャリ。

♂？・60 is normal. Chubby starts around 80.

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ぽちゃ10から上全部いける

細いのは苦手だ

てかぽちゃは60より上からだろ

♂・More than 10 are all fine. I don’t like thin girls. Chubby should start from 60.

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これ顔が写ってないからどれも良い体系に見えるけど

60ぐらいから、顎とか頬がふっくらしてきてむり

♂・I can’t see their faces so just looking at them this way they’re all fine. But from 60 if they have plump faces then I wouldn’t date them.

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…この米みただけでも女が理想とする女と男が理想とする女

ってのがかけ離れているのが解るなぁ…

♂？・What men and women consider ideal is different. I can tell just by looking at these comments.

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ガリガリとかマジ勘弁なんだが、女性雑誌は気が狂ったようにやせろやせろ

言ってるからなぁ。ムッチムチのがいいのに

♂・Sorry, but I’m not dating those skin and bones girls. Girls magazines make girls go crazy thinking they need to diet, diet, diet all the time. But being plump is good.

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10%未満は気持ち悪い。

彼女にするとしたら20%から

抱くとしたら40%からがいい。

っていうかマスゴミにいい加減にしろって言いたい。

♂・Less than 10% is gross. I would want to start at 20% for a girlfriend, and I think it would feel better to sleep with someone starting at 40%. I also want to tell the media to stop making women obsessed with losing weight.

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ガリだのデブだの女の体に注文つける前に

裸体で全身鏡の前に立ってこい

♀？？Before you tell a woman she’s too fat or skinny why don’t you take off your clothes and stand in front of a mirror first!

－１０と０、

１０と２０逆じゃないか？

♂？・Shouldn’t -10 and 0, and 10 and 20 be reversed?

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100でもおk

♂・Even 100 is fine.

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オールおｋ

♂・All of them are okay!

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なんてこった40でポチャなのか

♂・What?? 40 is chubby??

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抱き心地は６０ぐらいがいちばんいいよ

♂・Around 60 would be the best for cuddling.

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40以上は完全にデブ

20がギリギリアウトだな

The ones above 40 are definitely fat.

♂？・20 is just over the line for being chubby.

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40～が好みだな

100でもやわらかそうでいいし

♂・My tastes start at 40. Even 100 looks soft and nice.

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ポチャ度80や100でもお腹出てないね…羨ましい。

♀・Even 80 and 100’s stomachs don’t stick out. I’m jealous.

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６０㌫以上だな

♂・I like from 60 and above.

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80まで全然余裕

100も可愛けりゃおっけー

♂・Up to 80 are completely fine. If she’s cute then 100 is okay, too.

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-20%から下と100%以外はどれもおｋ。中でも60%、80%辺りが意外といいかもｗ

♂・Other than -20 and below, and 100, everyone else is fine. Especially 60 and 80 are great.

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40%

♂・40%

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60%以上だな

でも100%以外は全然ポチャじゃないと思う

♂・No less than 60%. Other than 100, the rest aren’t chubby at all.

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60～100がぽっちゃりだろうなぁ

それ以上いくとただのデブ

100も個人的にはちとギリだけど

♂・60-100 are chubby. More than 100 would be fat. You could say 100 is chubby, but to me she might be fat.

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右下の人はウェストが少しだけオーバーしてるな。

ぽちゃ失格。プチデブ。但しウェストのみ。

♂・The 100% girl’s waist is a little big. She’s a little too fat to be chubby, but only in her waist.

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10％60％80％100％

♂・I like 10, 60, 80, and 100.

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60or80

80が最高だな

♂・ I like 60 or 80. 80 is the best.

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60～80

可愛ければ100まで

♂・60-80 is good. If she’s cute 100 would be okay, too.

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-10から100までOKだが

理想は40かな

♂・-10 through 100 are good. 40 is ideal.

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60だな。80と100はない。

70があったらみせてほしい。

♂・60 for me. Not 80 or 100. But if there’s 70 I want to see.

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勿論、60%以下はお断りだよなｗ

80-100%がストライクゾーン。ていうか100%ちょい超えまでは余裕。

♂・Of course 60 and below are no good. 80 to 100 are my tastes. A little above 100 is perfectly fine, too.

♂・A lot of the chubby women on dating websites are around 200%, aren’t they?

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60%か80%だな

♂・I guess 60 or 80

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＋１０〜＋８０が範囲内だなｗ

♂・My range is 10-80 lol

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顔可愛いれば全部いけるわ余裕で

童貞だけど

♂・If they’re cute, all of them are fine. I’m still a virgin, though.

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60%か80%だな。

つか、その画像よく見るけど、100%で辛うじてぽちゃじゃね？

全体的にやせすぎ。

♂・60 or 80. By the way, I see this chart often but 100 is barely chubby, isn’t she? Everyone in this chart is too thin.

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0-100％にデブはいないと思う マイナスの方はガリ、と言えるだろうが

♂・None of the girls here are fat. The minus ones are too thin.

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200%までのないのかよ

♂・They should have up to 200%.

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20%から80%が好みだなあ

つーか-30%から-10%とかムリ＞＜

♂・I like from 20-80. There’s no way I’d go for -30 to -10.

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ガリの二人より１００のがマダ良いや

♂・I like 100 more than -30 and -20.

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-10か0がストライク

♂・-10 or 0 are perfect for me

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下は全部いける

♂・I like the whole bottom row.

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許容範囲は-10％〜60％ぐらいまでだな。

60％が許せるぽちゃ、

80％〜100％はただのデブじゃね？

♂・My level would be from -10 to 60. 60 is chubby but that’s okay. 80 to 100 are just fat, aren’t they?

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0％が最高にｲｲ

♂・0 is perfect.

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あ〜大体４０％だわ

悪く見ても６０％

♂?・I like around 40, or maybe 60.

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100以外はガリじゃん

♂・Other than 100 they’re all too thin.

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全部行けるが

下半分の方がより良い

♂・I could go for all of them, but I like the bottom row better.

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40％一択。

♂・Only 40.

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-10、10、40、80がいいな

♂・I like -10, 10, 40, and 80

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ぽちゃ度１００は無いわ

腹が出てるやんけ

妊娠何カ月？ってネタにされるレベル

♂・100% no way. Your stomach is sticking out. How long has it been since you got pregnant?

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0と-10は逆じゃないか？

♂・Shouldn’t 0 and -10 be reversed?

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男の言うポチャ80％まで

女の言うポチャ120％オーバー

?・For guys chubby is up to 80%. For girls chubby can be over 120%.

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-10から40までが良いな

♂・I like -10 to 40.

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-30 BMI15

-20 BMI16

-10 BMI17

0 BMI15

+10 BMI18

+20 BMI19

+40 BMI20

+60 BMI21

+80 BMI22

+90 BMI24

♂・

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自称ぽっちゃり女子の感覚からすると、

ぽちゃ度60％まではみんなスリム、80％で普通、100％でややぽっちゃり

こんな感じ。

「100％の写真でも全然普通、もっとぽっちゃりでも男子は好きなんでしょ？」

ぐらいに思っているよ。

♀・I’m a chubby woman. To me, everyone up to 60 is slim. 80% is normal and 100% is a little chubby. I think a lot of guys would think that 100% is totally normal, and they like girls chubbier than that.

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80%がぽちゃ度0%だと思うけど、これって、女の人から見たぽちゃ度なのか？

♂？・80% should be 0% chubby. Isn’t this chart more what women think about themselves?

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80以上無いと話しにならない

♂・Less than 80% are out of the question.

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40に腹筋がもう少しつけば最高

♂・If 40’s abs were a little more defined she would be perfect.

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60、80、100はみんないい。

40以下はパス

♂・I like 60, 80, and 100. I’ll pass on 40 and under.

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−１０から４０までだな。

６０になると、豚を抱いている気分になる。

♂・I’d go for -10 to 40. If she was 60 I’d feel like I was having sex with a pig.

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40か60だな

♂・I like 40 or 60.

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100でも有田

現実にはもっとスゴイのいるだろｗ

♂・100 is fine. There are a lot of chubbier girls in real life.

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20%〜80%がいいな

ガリとデブは嫌だ

♂・I like 20 to 80. I don’t like the ones who are too thin or fat.

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10%以上全部許容範囲、200%があったらそれもたぶん大丈夫

♂・I like all of the ones above 10. If there was a 200% I think I’d still like her.

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10から80までだな

♂・I like 10 to 80.

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俺は20以上ならOK

0はガリガリだと思うな。

100以上はぽちゃじゃないのは皆に同意だがｗ

♂・I’d go for 20 and above. 0 is too skinny. I think we can all agree that under 100 is not chubby.

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60％はデブの部類だな

♂・60% is fat.

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80が一番

次が100と、60

下は全部いけるけど

上は正直やせすぎ。

♂・80 is the best. Next would be 100, and then 60. I’d go for the whole bottom row, but to be honest the top are all too thin.

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ポチャ度、＋10〜＋40％までがストライク

それ以外は却下

♂・10-40 are perfect for me. I don’t like the rest.

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さすがにマイナスは気持ち悪いな。

60%がベストだな。100%でも十分魅力的だ。

抱き心地がよさそうだ。

ファイブスター物語に出てくるようなガリガリなモデル体型の女性たちは、生物として気持ち悪い。

♂・The minus girls are gross. 60 is the best. 100 is completely fine. She looks like it’d feel good to cuddle with her.

The thin girls look like the ones from Five Star stories and are gross.

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むしろ10%−100%までおｋで

100も結構好みの自分にびっくりした・・・

10-100 is okay. I’m surprised that I actually like 100.

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女性がいうぽっちゃりは300以上とかだろ。男性の目からみたらぽっちゃりではなく「太ましい」とか「肥満」。

♂・For girls, chubby is more than 300%. Looking at it from a guys perspective, they wouldn’t be chubby but obese.

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０〜４０％が許容範囲

４０％と６０％の差があり過ぎる感じ

水着と体形が合っているかどうかも見え方に影響するから実際のところは分からないな

♂・My range is 0-40. I think there’s too big of a jump from 40 to 60. Although their swimsuits and shape are influencing my decision so I guess I don’t really know.